Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law

ISBN-13: 9781474454360 / Angielski

Judith Hudson

Opis

Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Note on Spelling, Citation and Abbreviation; Introduction; Chapter One. ‘Vipers in the bosom of our Law’: The Emergence of Perjury as a Common Law Offence; Chapter Two. ‘Hollow-hearted angels’: Coins, Counterfeits and the Discourses of Treason; Chapter Three. ‘The Woman’s Case put to the Lawyers’: Miscarriage of Justice and the Case of Anne Greene; Chapter Four. Pardon and Oblivion: Pardon, Benefit of Clergy, Peine Forte et Dure; Chapter Five. ‘England’s Rubidg’: Mary Carleton and the Early Use of Transportation; Bibliography.